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title: "Pages keep their children"
date: 2026-10-01
author: "Matt Cromwell"
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# Pages keep their children

When you reorder pages or any hierarchical post type, parent pages with children show a small leaf arrow right after the title. Click it to open the nested list underneath.

Flat post types like standard blog posts skip that child lookup completely, so opening the reorder screen does not run an extra query for every row.